The Cambridge introduction to comedy:
How do we identify something as comedy? How does reading a comic text differ from reading other kinds of texts? How does comedy relate to social, cultural, and political issues? From Aristotle to the commedia dell'arte, from Wilde to Albee, this Introduction uses these and many other examples f...
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| Zusammenfassung: | How do we identify something as comedy? How does reading a comic text differ from reading other kinds of texts? How does comedy relate to social, cultural, and political issues? From Aristotle to the commedia dell'arte, from Wilde to Albee, this Introduction uses these and many other examples from the vast history and range of the comedy genre to investigate comedy's patterns, characteristics, and mechanisms. Focusing on dramatic texts, the book also refers to literature, film, and television throughout, exploring how comedy affects and inhabits other worlds and genres. |
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| Beschreibung: | XII, 243 S. Ill. |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of illustrations page
vii
Preface
ix
Introduction: Thinking about comedy
1
First things
1
Play
3
What is comedy?
7
Something to make us laugh?
8
Happy endings
10
The world brought down to earth
12
Summing up before moving on
18
Chapter
1
Reading comedy
20
What kind of world is this?
20
Formal and textual elements
23
Entering the world of comedy
26
Comedy in the end
35
Chapter
2
Comedy s foundations
39
Back to (what we call) the beginning
39
The fingerprints of Old Comedy
42
Our old friend, New Comedy
50
New Comedy in Roman hands
58
Chapter
3
Comedy s devices
63
Towards a study of comic traits
63
Humour and its mechanics
63
vi
Contents
Humour
and the dramatic text
69
Mine the gap: the reader s view
72
Mine the gap: the spectator s access
86
Chapter
4
Comedy in the flesh
93
Comedy for the stage of the mind
93
Performance fabric and outlining
95
Reading comic bodies and voices
96
The
commedia dell arte
102
The clown
110
Reading comic character (mask)
114
Reading comic dialogue
{lazzi)
120
Comic metaphysics
127
Chapter
5
Comedy s range
131
Dramatic texture and the comic
131
The comic and the tragic
132
The deadly serious treated playfully
140
The comic beyond the realistic
142
Comic latitude in production
161
Chapter
б
Comedy and society
171
Comedy s associates
171
Comedy s politics
190
Notes
207
Further reading
222
List of texts
224
Bibliography
227
Index
237
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